Bournemouth announce new manager: Why Cherries have appointed Marco Rose as Andoni Iraola's successor

Bournemouth person confirmed the assignment of erstwhile RB Leipzig brag arsenic Andoni Iraola's replacement. 

Iraola announced past week that this volition beryllium his 3rd and last play successful the Cherries dugout. 

With Iraola acceptable to permission astatine the extremity of his declaration this summer, Bournemouth person rapidly moved to name Rose arsenic his successor. 

The Cherries person confirmed that Rose has agreed a three-year declaration to instrumentality implicit the reins astatine the extremity of the existent season.

Rose volition negociate successful the Premier League for the archetypal clip aft spending his coaching vocation successful Austria with Red Bull Salzburg and successful Germany with Borussia Monchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig.

AFC Bournemouth is delighted to corroborate the assignment of Marco Rose arsenic the club’s caller caput manager connected a three-year contract, which volition statesman pursuing the decision of the 2025/26 season.

Why Bournemouth appointed Rose

As per The Athletic, Rose's assertive benignant of play was 1 of the cardinal factors down his appointment.

Rose wants his squad to property precocious retired of possession and past determination the shot guardant astatine gait erstwhile they triumph it back. 

The Cherries hierarchy anticipation that the similarities down Rose and Iraola's benignant of play volition marque the modulation overmuch smoother than if they opted for a manager with a antithetic approach.

Rose besides brings acquisition of starring clubs to European qualification, allowing him to manager successful the Champions League and Europa League.

Those experiences volition beryllium peculiarly utile if Bournemouth tin decorativeness the existent Premier League run successful a European position.

The 49-year-old besides has acquisition of guiding teams to silverware aft starring Salzburg to 2 league titles and the Austrian Cup, and Leipzig to the DFB-Pokal and German Super Cup. 

Importance of Bournemouth's speedy recruitment process

According to BBC Sport, Rose was 1 of 3 names connected Bournemouth's managerial shortlist.

Ipswich Town's Kieran McKenna was said to beryllium nether consideration, portion determination was besides involvement successful Iraola's erstwhile adjunct and existent Rayo Vallecano caput manager Inigo Perez.

However, Bournemouth would person had to hold until the extremity of the play to prosecute a woody for McKenna oregon Perez owed to their existent commitments.

In contrast, Rose has been retired of absorption since leaving Leipzig successful March 2025, allowing for a creaseless and swift dialog process. 

The speedy quality of Rose's assignment puts to furniture the speculation astir the caput manager presumption and allows the nine to absorption each of their efforts connected their bid to unafraid European qualification.